The Indigestible

Here we begin to see a lit­tle of what is wrong with Cock, per­haps; what is wrong with his life, con­tin­u­ing from the last chap­ter. Dolen El is prob­a­bly the hard­est char­ac­ter I’ve ever writ­ten, harder even than the free­man Kellis from Beasts of Delphos. While Cock has his quirks, he’s ulti­mately a decent per­son; Dolen El […]

With this we get our first true taste of Cock, and it’s not really good. He is def­i­nitely an anti­hero. Abusive, arro­gant, pos­si­bly a rapist; yet here is a throw­away sen­tence that I think sums him up, what he is, what is prob­a­bly the core theme of this novel: Bless my sins, for I was fathered. Here we also […]

Continuing an ear­lier exper­i­ment, here’s the cur­rent rev of chap­ter 3 from The Seven-​​​​Year Mirror. The speaker in these inter­calary pas­sages is Tirra Shujaa, a native Talec man who is try­ing to grasp how and why he seems so dif­fer­ent from his brother Treva, who is his genetic iden­ti­cal twin. Tirra’s life crosses paths even­tu­ally with a few of […]

Well, the post­ing con­tin­ues. Here we’re first intro­duced to Cock, Fan, Rip, Tube and Blade, as well as the arguably shal­low lives they lead. Castor is largely a resort planet, and its cul­ture can be quite misog­y­nis­tic — so don’t think it’s just Blade who gets treated badly there. Cock’s life is depress­ing, and so is Fan’s. […]

I’m going to try some­thing a lit­tle dif­fer­ent here, though noth­ing that’s never been done before. A while back I let a char­ac­ter, Cock, leak onto this blog; he’s actu­ally a prin­ci­pal from a work in progress called The Seven-​​​​Year Mirror. Overall I think the nar­ra­tive is doing well but it’s stalled; I’m going to begin post­ing it here seri­ally to see […]